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“Over two days, newspapers around the world published 1.2 million articles. Over one 24-hour period, the global radio and television coverage combined added up to 20 million minutes; to watch it all it would have taken a human being 38 years,” reports Richard Gizbert of Al Jazeera English on the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States.

“Despite its ancient roots the ceremony provides news networks with a perfect piece of television an historic event, and a central figure whose every move the world will be watching. But did the media get the story right? Does the dominant narrative of change and the start of a new era square with the facts? And what will an Obama administration mean for the media in the United States?”